S.F. Supe Hopeful Owes $20,000 In Back Taxes

Two favorites, Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, of the San Francisco Chronicle, are reporting that Bay Area Regional Transit board member, Lynette Sweet, who is also running for supervisor in San Francisco this fall, owes $20,000 in back taxes and penalties to the federal government.

The Internal Revenue Service slapped a lien on Sweet’s home in the Bayview after a 2005 audit showed she owed more than $14,000 in taxes dating back to 2000, according to documents on file at the county recorder’s office.

Sweet – who chairs BART’s budget committee – was appointed to the nine-member board in February 2003 to replace Willie Kennedy, who had resigned. She was elected on her own in 2004, and is now in a hotly contested race for San Francisco supervisor in District 10.